1 killed, 10 injured in city shootings

One man has been killed in the Humboldt Park neighborhood and 10 other people injured in attacks on the South and West sides since midmorning Saturday, authorities said.

Ronnie Amos, 42, was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital at 9:26 a.m. following the shooting in the 3600 block of West Chicago Avenue, steps from Amos' home, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

The shooting occurred at 8:54 Saturday morning, News Affairs Officer Stacey Cooper said. Amos was riding his bicycle when someone approached and shot him in the head and right arm, police said. The gunman fled on foot but nobody else was hurt.

Area North detectives are investigating.

In other shootings:

• Just before 5 a.m. Sunday, someone shot a 25-year-old man in the back and buttocks at 64th Street and Dr. Martin L. King Jr. Drive in the Parkway Gardens neighborhood on the South Side. The man shot was not cooperating with police, who said they aren't entirely sure how this man came to be shot. He was taken to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County in critical condition.

• A 34-year-old man was grazed in the neck in the Altgeld Gardens neighborhood about 3:05 a.m. Sunday, police said. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in good condition. He was shot near 132nd Street and Langley Avenue.

• In the Lawndale neighborhood about 2:30 a.m. Sunday, a 37-year-old man was shot multiple times. He was in the parking lot of a gas station at 19th Street and Pulaski Road when someone stepped out of a car and opened fire, hitting him. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where his condition was stabilized.

• A 19-year-old man was shot in the Pilsen neighborhood just before 1 a.m. Sunday, according to police. He was outside an apartment building in the 1800 block of South Throop Street when someone fired a single shot toward him from a dark SUV. He was taken to Stroger hospital in critical condition, police said.

• At 8:30 p.m. Saturday, a 24-year-old man was shot in the buttocks near 78th Street and Bennett Avenue in the South Shore neighborhood. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in good condition, police said.

• Someone shot a 27-year-old man in the Englewood neighborhood about 6:30 p.m. Saturday, police said. The shooting was a drive-by. The 27-year-old was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in good condition, police said. That occurred in the 5600 block of South Wolcott Avenue in the West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.

• A man and a woman were shot in the 6200 block of South Vernon Avenue in the West Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side in what may have been a drive-by shooting about 5:25 p.m. Saturday, police said. The man, age 20, was shot in the right foot, and the woman, age 32, was shot in the arm. Both were in good condition at the University of Chicago Medical Center Saturday evening, police said.

• Earlier, in the Austin neighborhood, two men were shot in the 300 block of North Laramie Avenue in the South Austin neighborhood on the West Side about noon, police said. The two were passengers in a van that was headed south on Laramie at Lake Street but was stopped at a red light when someone came up to the van and fired, Cooper said. The men, ages 21 and 22, were each shot in the leg and were being treated in good condition at Mount Sinai Hospital.